Vincent Massey teacher Kelly DeRoo has been named the Manitoba High Schools Athletic Association’s female high school coach of the year.

DeRoo was presented with the 2026 Grey Cup Legacy award on Tuesday at the MHSAA’s annual general meeting in Brandon.

DeRoo coached for a year in Baldur prior to a move to Massey in 2010. She coached the Vikings junior varsity girls volleyball program from 2010 to 2022 before taking over the varsity girls team, and also coached badminton at both schools.

In addition, she coached at volleyball camps in Brandon and Neepawa and is director of the Bobcats volleyball camps this year. For the past three years, she’s served as an assistant coach with the Brandon University women’s volleyball program and is now interim head coach.

Ivy Perkin of Souris has won $2,000 scholarship from the Manitoba High Schools Athletic Association as one of its four scholar athletes of the year.

They are awarded to graduating high school student athletes who maintained a minimum 85 per cent average and competed in at least two interscholastic sports. Their work around their school, in the community as a volunteer and their citizenship activities were also considered.

Perkin, who had a class-high 96 per cent academic average, competed in basketball, volleyball, badminton, track and field, rugby, and hockey.

In basketball, the two-time, provincial all-star and graduating all-star was team captain for three seasons, leading her team in points, assists, and steals per game each time.

One reality in sports that doesn’t seem to change is how the bronze medalists are always happier than the ones who finish a spot higher.

For the Dauphin Clippers, that fact was quite crystal clear as their boys and girls clubs both ended up on the wrong side of the winners circle in their respective high school rugby provincial championships at John Reilly Field on Saturday.

“There’s definitely a lot of emotions,” said Clippers senior flank Kierstin Vandekerckhove post-game. “I’d say it’s kind of a bittersweet feeling, we were all working hard and put all of our effort until the end of the game, so as soon as we were done and we didn’t win, it was definitely sad.”

The 18-year-old did everything she could, including trudging through more than five defenders at a time to try and bring her team back into the game, but it ultimately wasn’t enough as Dauphin dropped a 31-22 decision to the Steinbach Sabres in the final, officially losing its undefeated tag in what was a spectacular season for the green sweaters.

The Dauphin Clippers’ dominant run in girls rugby came to a shocking end at John Reilly Field on Saturday.

The defending provincial champion Clippers fell 31-22 to the Steinbach Sabres in the provincial final.

Jorja Percival, Paityn Bourgoin, Desiree Lariviere and Edie Fleck scored tries for the Clippers, who were undefeated until the title match.

Elenoa Kaukirewa posted two tries and three converts for Steinbach.

Cason Burton and Jaxon Woychyshyn were named provincial all-stars as the Vincent Massey baseball team earned a silver medal at the Manitoba High Schools Athletic Association championship in Portage la Prairie on Saturday.

The Vikings beat the Steinbach Sabres 15-9 to reach the gold-medal game, but the Northlands Parkway Nighthawks defeated them 8-6.

At soccer provincials in Steinbach, the Vikings earned a bronze medal with a 7-1 triumph over the Vincent Massey Trojans.

The Vikings fell 3-2 to the champion Daniel McIntyre Maroons in the semifinals.